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Municipal support key to igniting already dynamic informal food trade system SuperUser Account / Wednesday, February 11, 2026 0 2 Article rating: No rating Two experts hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) during a webinar on February 11 agreed that small-scale food system actors have a crucial role to play in alleviating poverty in South Africa and urged municipalities to be enabling entities of this underrated powerhouse sector. Strengthening small-scale agri-food systems in urban, peri-urban and rural settings in South Africa was crucial if the country was to meet its 2030 National Development Policy goals, HSRC researcher Vandudzai Mbanda stated. Read more
The SBI calls for faster implementation of policies to boost job-creating growth SuperUser Account / Wednesday, February 11, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating Industry nonprofit the Small Business Institute (SBI) has called for faster implementation of agreed policies and laws to improve job-creating growth and calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to marshal government to purposefully implement the country's plans and initiatives. “There are many plans and initiatives to get the country out of the 1% GDP growth trajectory. Layering new ones on existing ones will not help the economy grow, and establishing a plethora of new institutions through an incapable State is counter-productive,” SBI CEO John Dludlu says in a media release ahead of Ramaphosa’s delivery of his yearly State of the Nation Address (SoNA). Read more
Crime, job prospects drive rich, skilled South Africans abroad SuperUser Account / Wednesday, February 11, 2026 0 6 Article rating: No rating Concerns about crime, the future of their children and career prospects have driven more than 1-million rich and well-educated South Africans to emigrate, a new report shows. Nearly half of the 1 500 South Africans living in 73 countries polled for the South African Diaspora Report 2026 by the University of Cape Town’s Liberty Institute of Strategic Marketing cited fears about insecurity and safety as their main reason for leaving. Read more
Optipower transaction bolsters Kulani Energy transmission EPC capacity SuperUser Account / Wednesday, February 11, 2026 0 6 Article rating: No rating Black women-owned engineering and energy infrastructure firm Kulani Energy has acquired key assets from Optipower that historically operated as a division of Murray & Roberts Limited, which is in business rescue. Optipower is one of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors approved on Eskom’s Panel A, supporting the National Transmission Company South Africa’s planned roll-out of more than 14 000 km of transmission lines. Read more
Tau Pele receives cold, in-situ recycling road rehabilitation train from Wirtgen for N4 upgrade SuperUser Account / Wednesday, February 11, 2026 0 6 Article rating: No rating A cold recycling road rehabilitation train, which can mill, mix and pave old asphalt in a single pass, has been deployed on the Schoemanskloof stretch of the N4 road by construction contractor Tau Pele Construction, which is upgrading the stretch of road. The train, sourced from construction equipment manufacturer Wirtgen, is now hard at work upgrading the 68 km Schoemanskloof stretch of the N4 highway, in Mpumalanga. The upgrade entails the construction of 50 km of additional lanes, in addition to the rehabilitation of the existing road and overlaying the entire project, says Tau Pele MD Frans Bouwer. Read more